Emptying the Cradle of Liberty. (The Right Perspective).

A few weeks ago, I was ignoring a stream of e-mails from Scouting for All, a left-wing activist group attempting to force change in the Boy Scouts' policy on homosexuals and God. These emails were announcing a demonstration that was to take place outside of the convention center in Philadelphia where the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) would hold its annual national convention. I should have detected the warning signs of what was about to happen.

Convention-goers were mostly oblivious to the small group of Scouting for All picketers that showed up during the meeting. But they could not help but be astounded by the interestingly timed decision of Philadelphia's local Cradle of Liberty Boy Scout Council to allow open homosexuals into the organization as leaders and members.

Philadelphia is now the third largest local council in the nation to fall prey to the radical conspiracy against the Boy Scouts. Last year, the Boston Minuteman Council and the Piedmont Council near San Francisco rebelled against the BSA national policy stating that homosexuals cannot hold membership in the organization. Now that the three councils have given in, others in the country are discussing the possibility of following along on the dark road to moral relativism.

Two years ago, the chief executive officers in nine major Scout councils wrote letters requesting that the Boy Scouts of America change its policy to accommodate homosexuals. Those councils were from Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, Minneapolis, and three from Los Angeles.

Though some have claimed that the Cradle of Liberty Council was courageous in its stand, nothing could be further from the truth. The council set a pathetic example of cowardice and moral indifference for its 87,000 young members.

Those who wish to destroy the core values of the Boy Scouts wish to destroy Scouting itself. For over 20 years, the radical Left has exercised gradual efforts to defund and destroy Scouting through constant lawsuits and protests. The conspiracy behind the feminist movement, the homosexual rights movement, and the atheist/humanist movement has weighed down on the Scouts so heavily that it is now beginning to buckle. The anti-Scouts have persuaded companies, charities, churches, and schools to end ties with the Scouts.

As a result of the work of the United Way, several ecumenical church denominations, unions, educational and medical organizations, liberal judges, the Clinton administration, and many other "mainstream" causes, left-wing activists are able to go largely unchallenged in labeling ...